Interactive learning style helps students become familiar with using the ISO 9001 Standard as criteria for auditing, the importance of an audit program along with basic auditing principles.

St. Louis, MO – February 27, 2009 – Bizmanualz, Inc., a business publications, training and consulting company based in St. Louis, MO, today announced the launch of a completely redesigned version of its ISO 9001 QMS Internal Auditor Training course.  This ISO training course demonstrates requisite auditing skills to beginning auditors, and is also valuable to experienced auditors and quality managers looking for a refresher course or the opportunity to discuss innovative approaches.

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In this series our topic is how to write procedures: what advice do we have to give about writing procedures? Most importantly – employ the writing process. The writing process considers activities that successful writers engage in while producing a piece of writing, and it applies whether one is writing an essay, a business letter, or a procedure. These writing activities are typically divided into three steps or phases – Planning, Drafting, and Revising. Having covered Planning and Drafting, let’s turn our attention to Revising.

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Recently we published a series of articles covering why you need policies and procedures, and it included how to decide when you need to create procedures. Now that you understand why you need procedures, let’s talk about how to write procedures.

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You may be familiar with the COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission) framework for internal control. We have discussed it in past articles, and it has received significant attention when referenced by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) as an example of an “internal control” system as required by Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) sections 302 and 404.

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In recent articles we have discussed several aspects of business finance.  Topics so far have included internal controls, capital planning, and managing working capital. While almost every business pays attention to financial performance, studies show that small and medium sized businesses in particular frequently do not engage in thorough financial planning – if at all. 

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In the past few weeks we have been covering important elements of finance processes, including internal control systems as prescribed by Sarbanes-Oxley, and the importance of capital planning to ensure key high level financial facets such cost of capital and return on assets have established goals and are being measured.

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What a year this was. A new policies and procedures manual. New training courses. And, most importantly, over 50 articles on various aspects of business management and process improvement. Our goal here at Bizmanualz is to help you streamline your processes and improve your business performance. If our articles help you achieve this in any way, we feel like we have succeeded.

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The articles in September were intended to give you glimpses of developments at Bizmanualz. Our first article was about the newly redesigned Internal Auditor class. The next article talked about our new learning center and last week’s article covered the release of the Spanish ISO 22000 Procedures Manual.

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“I am here to audit you.”  That phrase can strike fear in most of us, thanks in part to our good friends at the IRS.  In the business world as well, those five words can send a chill down the spine of everyone from the Finance VP to the shipping department clerk.  But it shouldn’t. 

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St. Louis, MO – February 12, 2005. Bizmanualz, Inc., a management training, consulting and publishing provider based in Clayton, MO, today announced the release of a new two-day IRCA Internal Auditor Skills Class designed for companies requiring ISO certification and business process assistance.

The course is scheduled for March 16 and 17 in St. Louis, and provides an opportunity to earn an internationally accredited Quality Auditor Training Certificate. The Internal Auditor Skills Class meets all requirements for certification as an internal auditor for ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management Systems.

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